Get ready for the first official driverless car race

Formula E, a class of auto racing for electric cars, has teamed
up with battery manufacturer Kinetik to create the first race for
autonomous, electric cars.

The aptly named "Roborace" will take place during the
2016-2017 racing season before each Formula E racing event,
Formula E wrote in a press
release. There will be 10 teams, each with 2 driverless
cars, competing in the one-hour event.

The race will actually a battle of the best artificial
intelligence since each team will be given the same electric cars
to race with.

"(Roborace is) a global platform to show that robotic
technologies and AI can co-exist with us in real life," Denis
Sverdlov, Founder of Kinetik and ROBORACE, wrote in the
announcement.

"Anyone who is at the edge of this transformation now has a
platform to show the advantages of their driverless solutions and
this shall push the development of the technology.”

There will be one "community team" in each race, where experts
from around the world can crowdsource software to participate.

More information about the teams and types of technology that
will be used are slated to be released early next year.